Spring Symposium 2009
May 2, 9.00 am to 2.00 pm
PRIZE WINNERS
Everyone showing posters and/or giving oral presentations is already a winner, of course, and the overall quality was truly outstanding. More than one faculty guest compared these undergraduate presentations favorably with the work of their graduate students!
We would also like to recognize the outstanding achievements of prize winners as listed below:
POSTERS
GRAND PRIZE
Carolyn Wilt
Dance Theater
URC Undergraduate Summer Research Award (Work in Progress)
Arts and Humanities
Dancing in the Czech Republic: Summer Intensive at the Ballet and Dance Workshop
Ostrava
Danielle Fisher
Zoology
Senior Honors Project (Proposal)
Natural sciences
Behavioral Response to Infection by Avian Malaria of the O`ahu Amakihi (Hemignathus
Flavus)
FIRST PRIZE
Norman Ellis
Elementary & Special Education
Senior Honors Project (Complete)
Social Sciences
Intrinsic Effects of Physical Activity on Self-Concept and Academic Achievement of
Preadolescents
RUNNERS UP
Richard Forster
History
Senior Honors Project (Proposal)
Arts and Humanities
Mangal Pandey: Drug-Crazed Fanatic or Canny Revolutionary?
Amber Mira
Psychology
URC Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Natural Sciences
A Study of Short-term Memory in Honeybees (Apis Mellifera):
Symbolic Matching-to-Sample
Megan Chock
Economics & Biology
Senior Honors Project (Proposal)
Social Sciences
An Economic Assessment of Biological Control for Hawaii’s Top Priority Noxious Weed,
Miconia Calvescens
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
FIRST PRIZE
1A: Projects in Arts & Humanities I
Gizelle Gajelonia
English
Stop Requested: A Collection of Poems
1B: Projects in Arts & Humanities II
Edna Leung
Elementary Education
Education, Arts, Policy, Funding
1C: Senior Honors Projects in Social Sciences I
Sara Fares
Accounting
Threadless.com as an Innovative Business Model
1D: Proposals for Senior Honors Projects in Social Sciences I
Borjana Lubura-Winchester
Geography
Ethnic Politics and Landscape in Bosnia
1E: Projects in Natural Sciences
Jenifer Nix
Biology
Senior Honors Project (Complete)
Olfactory Learning in the Yellow Striped Millipede, Spirobollelus sp. with Evolutionary
Significance for Phylum Arthropoda
2A: Projects in Social Sciences
Nicole Warren, Nicola Xella, James Small, Kristi Yamura and
Shannon Toriki
Economics & Political Science
Saving the Last "American" Cruise Ship
2B: Proposals for Senior Honors Projects in Arts & Humanities
Midori Hirai
English
American Girls: A Fictional Look at Japanese American Internment and Racial Profiling
2C: Senior Honors Projects in Social Sciences II
Elisia Gatmen
Psychology
The Effect of Music on Stress and False Memory of Individuals Using the
Deese-Roediger-McDermott Paradigm
2D: Proposals for Senior Honors Projects in Social Sciences II
Zain Allison
Microbiology
Implementation of Community Health Programs in Rural Madagascar
2E: Proposals for Senior Honors Projects in Natural Sciences
Danielle Fisher
Zoology
Behavioral Response to Infection by Avian Malaria of the O`ahu Amakihi (Hemignathus
Flavus)
More information
If you need further information about the Spring Symposium, call the Honors Director at 956-8391 or send an e-mail to honors@hawaii.edu.